Bøger af Teresa Fisher

Three times I have been the editor of a Mensa (R) newsletter, and those times happened to coincide with changes in my life. This self-indulgent little project is a way for me to preserve my thoughts from those times. I also included a few essays.

Have you ever... - cruised in a towboat towing barges down the Ohio River? - visited crop circles? - attended a live sex show in Amsterdam? - been in an emergency landing in a commercial airliner? - interacted with a serial rapist at his desolate hunting grounds? - been moments away from eating feces-infused pancakes? - waded naked, thigh-deep in a lake infested with water moccasins? - had Kris Kristofferson flirt with you? - drunk wine that had a dead cobra in the bottle? - been lost and alone in a dark Bangkok alley? - rolled down a mountain backwards in a hearse? - done what a bear does in the woods in someone's back yard in an Amazon River village? Teresa Fisher has done all of this and more. You'll have to read this book to find out the details.

When my friend Joanne was totally paralyzed by a stroke, I wanted to do something to make her life better, if only a tiny bit. I decided to write her a monthly letter. Every month I wrote her at least a three- or four-page letter, telling her what I had been doing and adding anything interesting I could find from popular culture or gossip about people we knew. I told her about my mother's grim but sometimes darkly humorous descent into dementia, and my various attempts at stand-up comedy. I complained about the weather, told her about my chickens, and described trips I took to Cuba, London, and Scandinavia. I hope she enjoyed my letters.

I've never seen a ghost and hope never to see one, but in the mid-1990s strange things began to happen in my house, or more correctly, in my life. At first my husband and I tried to ignore them or explain them away, but eventually that became impossible. We could brush off the first few weird events, but after a while we simply had to admit something sentient had entered our lives. A regular occurrence was the presence of mystery nose prints on windows and bathroom mirrors. Items would go missing and then return either in an inappropriate place or in the very place we had searched for them exhaustively. Things we hadn't seen or thought of in years would show up in a prominent place. Doors frequently locked themselves from the inside. Things we hadn't bought would appear in the refrigerator or the laundry basket. I've had this presence in my life for about twenty-five years now. My husband has passed on and I've moved to another house, but the weird activities continue, although not nearly as frequently as before. I've become accustomed to the Spook, and I've learned some of its ways, but I have no more idea who or what the Spook is than I did when it all started.

The 800-plus pages of this four-color book mark a milestone in European travel writing. It was Arthur Frommer who first set off an avalanche of travel to Europe, and whose subsequent writings and commentary have constantly expanded that market. And now Arthur Frommer has himself edited (and written personal introductions to) this definitive guidebook to every major nation of the continent. It contains his own insightful (and often controversial) advice and his views are supplemented by the current recommendations of the top experts and European specialists of Frommer's staff. Arthur Frommer, and his hand-picked experts, have created a classic guidebook that will be cherished and used by the many millions who regard him as the foremost expert on thoughtful and rewarding European travel.